Karen Runtz – Macnamara Field Naturalists' Club

Join CPAWS 50th celebration

Join CPAWS 50th celebration – Thursday, November 14 in Ottawa – to celebrate 50 years of conservation in the Ottawa Valley! A delicious meal inspired by the Ottawa Valley and prepared by the Wabano Centre chef will be provided, featuring locally sourced ingredients and traditional Algonquin recipes. Coffee, tea and Continue reading →

Community News

Join our board of directors

Good company, fine dining, and a chance to have dinner with our speakers — not to mention the satisfaction of helping the club grow and thrive: those are just some of the benefits of being a Macnamara Club board member.

Two of our members are leaving the board at the Continue reading →

Articles

On the Macnamara Trail – November 2019 update

We haven’t discontinued the paper version of our Trail Guide … yet …

We’ve held off reprinting our Trail Guide until we can incorporate five new interpretive stops related to the new Nopiming Loop. We’re hoping to proceed with that soon.

In the interim, we have posted a new Macnamara Continue reading →

Macnamara Trail Map

Club News

Through the windows…

It was a bright and stimulating evening…

In advancing the date of this year’s banquet to late October, we were able to soak up the still spectacular fall colours through the generously-sized windows in our venue overlooking the Sand Point Golf Course.

The stories, images and video clips of Continue reading →

Macnamara 2019 Banquet

Events Blog

Not so alone in the wild: people, carnivores, and their common paths – a Yukon study

Whitehorse is said to be a “a small city with a big back yard” except its back yard happens to be a wilderness and its residents get advice on living with neighbouring bears, cougars, foxes, coyotes, and other like animals.

Conservation biologist Alberto Suarez-Esteban, the guest speaker for the MFNC’s Continue reading →

meetings, speakers

Articles, Outreach

Upcoming Events

MFNC AGM and Presentation - The Nature of Canada: A Naturalist's Journey across this Great Country

Michael Runtz presents Members’ Night

Great Naturalists’ Quiz by Michael Runtz